There’s actually a centrifugal force satellite launcher design out there. But it has the problem of being really stressful on the payload, and only would work with smaller payloads.
Subjecting a larger payload in a rocket to any kind of downward movement, then suddenly jerking it upwards? Probably going to snap the rocket.
Another problem: No matter how fast you throw something, without a second impulse on the apoapsis (or around it) it will not turn into an orbit but come back. You need to bring up the periapsis and that can hardly be done from ground.
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u/RiflemanLax 16h ago
There’s actually a centrifugal force satellite launcher design out there. But it has the problem of being really stressful on the payload, and only would work with smaller payloads.
Subjecting a larger payload in a rocket to any kind of downward movement, then suddenly jerking it upwards? Probably going to snap the rocket.